Re: Encoding problems with latin accented characters in vfat partition

2017-06-09 Thread Rodolfo Medina
.  The only problem now is about latin accented characters such as >> bontà, perché, ragù, ecc...  In my home directory I have many files such >> named, but when I want to copy them into the above vfat driver there are >> encoding problems: those characters are messing and `Bad file decrip

Re: Encoding problems with latin accented characters in vfat partition

2017-06-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> I finally got to mount and share an USB drive plugged into my ADSL router >> (see thread `Accessing USB storage attached to network router' on this >> list). The only problem now is about latin accented charac

Re: Encoding problems with latin accented characters in vfat partition

2017-06-08 Thread Jim Ohlstein
On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 01:50 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi. > > I finally got to mount and share an USB drive plugged into my ADSL > router (see > thread `Accessing USB storage attached to network router' on this > list).  The > only problem now is about latin accente

Re: Encoding problems with latin accented characters in vfat partition

2017-06-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > I finally got to mount and share an USB drive plugged into my ADSL router > (see thread `Accessing USB storage attached to network router' on this list). > The only problem now is about latin accented characters such as bontà, > perché, ragù, ecc... In

Encoding problems with latin accented characters in vfat partition

2017-06-08 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi. I finally got to mount and share an USB drive plugged into my ADSL router (see thread `Accessing USB storage attached to network router' on this list). The only problem now is about latin accented characters such as bontà, perché, ragù, ecc... In my home directory I have many files

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã) (Solved)

2015-09-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 04:23:37PM -0300, Markos wrote: [...] > I had to enable the "compose key" with the following: > > settings (configurações) -> keyboard (teclado) -> shortcuts > (atalhos) -> typing (digitação) -> composition key (tecla de > co

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã) (Solved)

2015-09-23 Thread Markos
: Hi, Sounds like you had one of the English layouts with dead keys enabled on your other laptop. In Gnome you can just add the extra layouts under Settings -> Region& language -> input sources. HTH, On 23 September 2015 at 11:15, Markos wrote: Hi I just installed Jessie in an

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã)

2015-09-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Markos (mar...@c2o.pro.br): > I just installed Jessie in an IBM ThinkPad X60. > When I select the Keyboard "en" the keys work properly but can not > generate non-English characters or accented characters, such as ç, ã > or á. > > At another laptop (ThinkPad

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã)

2015-09-23 Thread Michael Graham
ed Jessie in an IBM ThinkPad X60. > > When I select the Keyboard "en" the keys work properly but can not generate > non-English characters or accented characters, such as ç, ã or á. > > At another laptop (ThinkPad Z61) I type: > > ' + c -> ç > ' + a -> á

Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã)

2015-09-23 Thread Markos
Hi I just installed Jessie in an IBM ThinkPad X60. When I select the Keyboard "en" the keys work properly but can not generate non-English characters or accented characters, such as ç, ã or á. At another laptop (ThinkPad Z61) I type: ' + c -> ç ' + a -> á ~ + a

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-04-01 Thread Joel Rees
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as > blobs. Substitution characters. I get the same thing when I work on a virtual console (ctrl-alt-Fn, not a shell window) with LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8. Ex

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-04-01 Thread Chris Davies
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as > blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? > CHARMAP="UTF-8" > CODESET="Lat15" > FONTFACE="TerminusBold" > FONTSIZE="8x16" I've g

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian wrote: On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 09:45:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that has them, because I can see them in X. Your problem is unreproducible here. The mouse was used to copy and paste the page at http

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Mar 2014 at 09:45:34 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I am attempting to get accented characters by displaying a file that > has them, because I can see them in X. Your problem is unreproducible here. The mouse was used to copy and paste the page at http://facweb.furman.edu/

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Brian wrote: On Thu 27 Mar 2014 at 20:49:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? Just so we see what you see, are these blobs round or square? How are you attempting to get accented

Re: how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-28 Thread Brian
On Thu 27 Mar 2014 at 20:49:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as > blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? Just so we see what you see, are these blobs round or square? How are you attempting to get accented char

how to show accented characters on console (not X)

2014-03-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Running Sid. Right now accented characters on the console show up as blobs. How do I change that with console-setup? The console-setup config has: # CONFIGURATION FILE FOR SETUPCON # Consult the console-setup(5) manual page. ACTIVE_CONSOLES="/dev/tty[1-6]" CHARMAP="

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-10-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 October 2013 07:44:22 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 aug 13, 12:09:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Because now I know that specifically they want to input the > > > barred characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-10-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > the /etc/default/keyboard file. (Can anyone explain to me what "lv3" > > means in this? The rest is obvious.) > > > > XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,compose:rctrl,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > This hasn't been answered as far as I can tell: It had no

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-10-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 29 aug 13, 12:09:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > Because now I know that specifically they want to input the barred > > characters āēīōū what would be possible methods to type those in that > > I should recommend to them? > > I cannot e

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-10-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 aug 13, 23:30:19, Bob Proulx wrote: > > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration > > That asks me what I want set up for AltGr and Compose. I selected > Right Alt and Right Control. That resulted in this configuration in > the /etc/default/keyboard file. (Can anyone explain to me wh

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 29 August 2013 14:17:46 François Patte wrote: > Le 29/08/2013 15:15, Stefan Monnier a écrit : > >> You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree > >> in Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these > >> characters! > > You, maybe, never taught p

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > >> All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily > >> input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the > >> bar characters āēīōū. And I don't see how to input bar characters > >> with the

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-30 Thread Joel Rees
Sorry about posting this to you off-list, Lisi. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: >>> All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easi

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-30 Thread Curt
On 2013-08-29, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in >> Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters! > > That's because it was Latin-1. If you tried Latin-2 you'd see them ;-) > Or Latin 101 maybe. --

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread François Patte
Le 29/08/2013 15:15, Stefan Monnier a écrit : >> You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in >> Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters! You, maybe, never taught prosody... -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et informatique Lab

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in > Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters! That's because it was Latin-1. If you tried Latin-2 you'd see them ;-) Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PPS: From "Inherit the Wind" with Spencer Tracy, analogously, "use all the words you know and don't care for well-elaborated language", if not everybody is able to understand somebody, than not the people who don't understand are the idiots, but the one who chose words that are not common is an idi

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 13:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > > > All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily > > > input. But then the fo

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 12:09 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > > All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily > > input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the > > bar characters āē

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 August 2013 22:37:25 Bob Proulx wrote: > All worked perfectly as described.  Accented characters are easily > input.  But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the > bar characters āēīōū.  And I don't see how to input bar characters > with the a

Re: OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 22 August 2013 19:15:25 Doug wrote: > On 08/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:04 +0200, François Patte wrote: > >> As for Latin, it is better to call it an ancient language, it is still > >> the official language in Vatican. > > > > *rofl* my plan was to

Re: OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 22 August 2013 16:56:14 Hendrik Boom wrote: > Sanskrit.  It has eight cases, not just six, > three numbers, not just singular and plural I didn't know that aboit Sanskrit. Shame on me! Are the three numbers singular, dual and plural, like classical Greek, or something else again

Re: OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Doug
On 08/22/2013 01:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:04 +0200, François Patte wrote: >> As for Latin, it is better to call it an ancient language, it is still >> the official language in Vatican. > > *rofl* my plan was to reply and to ask you, if it's their official > language, t

Re: OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 19:04 +0200, François Patte wrote: > As for Latin, it is better to call it an ancient language, it is still > the official language in Vatican. *rofl* my plan was to reply and to ask you, if it's their official language, than why don't they provide their homepage in Latin. T

Re: OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread François Patte
Le 22/08/2013 17:56, Hendrik Boom a écrit : > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:51:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin. >>> >>> If

Re: OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:15 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:56 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > And Sanskrit (from some eras, anyway) has German beat for compound > > words! > > :D > > I own a dust covered Bhagavad-Gītā written in Sanskrit, with a word by > word translation fo

Re: OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:56 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > And Sanskrit (from some eras, anyway) has German beat for compound > words! :D I own a dust covered Bhagavad-Gītā written in Sanskrit, with a word by word translation followed by an interpretation (not called "interpretation", but "explanat

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 21 Ago 2013, Doug wrote: The only time I have run into those odd-ball bar characters--the bar is called a "macron"--is in schoolboy Latin, where the Romans never heard of them! And the Latin used in Catholic Church liturgies never used the macrons either. Only Latin teachers, to make the

OT: Sanskrit vs Latin (Was: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:51:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin. >> >> If you've ever seen the "graffiti scene" in 'The Life

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 21 Ago 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: So I went off and set up: setxkbmap -rules evdev -model evdev -layout us -variant altgr-intl All worked perfectly as described. Accented characters are easily input. But then the follow-up came back that they wanted to input the bar characters āēīōū

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 18:53 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin. > > If you've ever seen the "graffiti scene" in 'The Life of Brian' then you > may use a word other than misfortune. :)

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread Thierry Chatelet
The Wednesday 21 August 2013 23:37:25, Bob Proulx wrote : > I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they > wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant > accented characters. > > I had previously read: > > http://lists

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-22 Thread François Patte
Le 21/08/2013 23:37, Bob Proulx a écrit : > I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they > wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant > accented characters. > > I had previously read: > > http://lists.debian.org/de

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 05:10:05PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin. If you've ever seen the "graffiti scene" in 'The Life of Brian' then you may use a word other than misfortune. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
More searching led me to this configuration. setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:rctrl That set up my Compose key. I can now build up Latin macron characters as well as accented characters. Yay! The choice of Right Alt and Right Control might be most general as all PC keyboards h

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Carl Johnson
Bob Proulx writes: > I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they > wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant > accented characters. > > I had previously read: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg020

OT: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 03:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt, rusticus porcus est, errare humanum > est Perhaps I should translate: I am, you are, he|she|it is, we are, you are, they are, the farmer is a pig, to err is human -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 17:10 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I have the misfortune of never having learned Latin. What a pity, such a useful language ;). Be happy, learning Latin does cause personality disorders ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 18:33 -0400, Doug wrote: > The only time I have run into those odd-ball bar characters--the > bar is called a "macron"--is in schoolboy Latin, where the Romans > never heard of them! On of the school subjects I had was Latin and I never heard of them too :D. To be fair, I did

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Doug
you create those characters in the email? And why wouldn't that > work on their system? > > BTW: The Debian system may have the capability to set up a compose key-- > one that will allow you to type accented characters like in French, > Spanish, German, etc., with looking up tho

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
7;t know how they entered them. Probably by cutting and pasting them. :-) > BTW: The Debian system may have the capability to set up a compose key-- > one that will allow you to type accented characters like in French, > Spanish, German, etc., with looking up those U+ characters. But >

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Doug
On 08/21/2013 05:37 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they > wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant > accented characters. > > I had previously read: > > http://lists.debian.org/de

Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Bob Proulx
I am helping someone configure their Debian system. They said they wished to type in "special" characters. Which I assumed meant accented characters. I had previously read: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/01/msg02068.html And that pointed me off to the very nicely writt

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2012-06-21, Chris Davies wrote: > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="gb" > XKBVARIANT="" > XKBOPTIONS="compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > > Notice that even though I chose the 105 key (Intl) keyboard, I do not > have an XKBVARIANT even though Compose is enabled and works. Mind you, > I've never

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: Chris Davies: Siard: hvw59601: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this thread. Yes, I have it working now. In Wheezy (i.e. not in Squeeze

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-23 Thread Siard
Chris Davies: > Siard: > > hvw59601: > > > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) > > > > and everyone seems to have missed that. > > Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this > thread. Yes, I have

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed tha

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-22 Thread hvw59601
Siard wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed tha

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Davies
>> I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) Siard wrote: > and everyone seems to have missed that. Nope. I have a working Compose key in a VT. See my other post in this thread. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Siard
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:25:00 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > Unfortunately as I indicated compose don't seem to work. Indeed, AFAIK Compose only works in X. But you wrote: > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) and everyone seems to have missed that. I rememb

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:58:34 -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I > used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no > idea how I did that. > > The keyboard is a US keyboard. > > At the moment

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread hvw59601
Doug wrote: On 06/20/2012 06:58 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Hi, I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no idea how I did that. The keyboard is a US keyboard. At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread hvw59601
Jon Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15. I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII characters. Life i

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 05:58:34PM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > /etc/locale.gen is set to en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15. I'm afraid I'm not offering a proper solution here, but I would implore you to move to UTF-8 for your locale, and any files storing non-ASCII characters. Life is just a little simpl

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Davies
hvw59601 wrote: > I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!) > The keyboard is a US keyboard. > At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows: > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBLAYOUT="us" > XKBVARIANT="intl" > #XKBVAR

Re: accented characters in text console

2012-06-20 Thread Doug
On 06/20/2012 06:58 PM, hvw59601 wrote: Hi, I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no idea how I did that. The keyboard is a US keyboard. At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows: XKBMODEL

accented characters in text console

2012-06-20 Thread hvw59601
Hi, I want to enter accented characters in a text console (not in X!). I used to do it because I have the files that show them, but I have no idea how I did that. The keyboard is a US keyboard. At the moment /etc/default/keyboard shows: XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="us&qu

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-03 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 02 February 2012 20:33:58 Kelly Clowers wrote: > But you never even mentioned "standard keyboard". It is true you were > quoted I know. That is part of my point! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-03 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 01 February 2012 14:37:42 Curt wrote: > No, the _OP_ said he had a standard _US_ keyboard, which doesn't have a > compose key, which is why this thread exists in the first place (that, > and the OP's shaky Google Fu). Sorry, Curt. I thought that I had checked carefully, but obviously

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 09:25, Chris Davies wrote: > Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Yes, he actually said "standard US keyboard". Which does not have >> an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country . > > Sigh! > > The Gnome compose key can be assigned to any of the "control" keys, > so perhaps Right Alt

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 02:22, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2012 20:39:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt wrote: >> > On 2012-01-30, ***Lisi wrote:*** >> > By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? >> > Is it Ammurukin? > > No, she di

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Chris Davies
Kelly Clowers wrote: > Yes, he actually said "standard US keyboard". Which does not have > an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country . Sigh! The Gnome compose key can be assigned to any of the "control" keys, so perhaps Right Alt would suffice. I'm sure that the X Windows based mapping would

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
d Sea' solution, which hasn't been tried since Moses anyway). I use Alt/AltGr to get dead keys, e.g. AltGr-[ e -> é AltGr-] e -> è AltGr-; e -> ë AltGr-# e -> ê AltGr-~ e -> ẽ I've also remapped functions keys to get the most common accented characters, but not a

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Curt
On 2012-02-01, Lisi wrote: > On Monday 30 January 2012 20:39:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt wrote: >> > On 2012-01-30, ***Lisi wrote:*** >> > By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? >> > Is it Ammurukin? > > No, she didn't. I said n

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-02-01 Thread Lisi
On Monday 30 January 2012 20:39:54 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt wrote: > > On 2012-01-30, ***Lisi wrote:*** > > By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? > > Is it Ammurukin? No, she didn't. I said nothing of the kind. Curt on the othe

Re: console_codes question (was Accented Characters - How to type)

2012-01-31 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Jan 30, 11:40 am, "Thomas H. George" wrote: > The man page for console_codes explains that there are two fonts > available (G0 and G1) with commands ^O and ^N to switch between them. > Furthermore, it is possible replace the standard font for G1 (VT100 > graphics) with a user-defined character

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-30, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? >> Is it Ammurukin? > > Yes, he actually said "standard US keyboard". Which does not have > an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country . > Okay, I finally understood the question! h

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:29, Curt wrote: > On 2012-01-30, Lisi wrote: > > By the way, what's a standard keyboard?  Is that a well-defined thing? > Is it Ammurukin? Yes, he actually said "standard US keyboard". Which does not have an AltGr key, unlike every civilized country . https://en.wikip

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 18:00, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:39:22PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: >> > On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: >> > >Hi, >> > > >> > >Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" >> > >unto us on

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Curt
on. That way the op could just cut and paste the offending directory names (or accented characters) at the console. By the way, what's a standard keyboard? Is that a well-defined thing? Is it Ammurukin? I have a modifier key on my keyboard (AltGR), if that's the correct term, that, in

console_codes question (was Accented Characters - How to type)

2012-01-30 Thread Thomas H. George
The man page for console_codes explains that there are two fonts available (G0 and G1) with commands ^O and ^N to switch between them. Furthermore, it is possible replace the standard font for G1 (VT100 graphics) with a user-defined character set. I have not been able to make all this work but it

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Lange
Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" unto us on Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:00:54 -0500: > Incidently, none of the other proposed solutions work. There is no > xorg.conf any more or at least it is no longer needed. Sorry, I should have mentioned this, if you need an xorg.conf you can create one with defaul

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-30 Thread Lisi
On Monday 30 January 2012 02:00:54 Thomas H. George wrote: > I was trying to use > directory completion as the directory in question was extremely long and > that didn't work. When I try to use tab completion and it fails it has always been because of some typo I had made. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 07:39:22PM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: > > On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" > > >unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: > > > > > /snip/ > > > >You ca

Re: [OT] Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-29, Michael Lange wrote: > > Now, as far as I could see, the question was "Accented Characters - How > to type from standard keyboard?" , so what's wrong with trying to answer > what appears to be a perfectly legal question ? Well, that's what the sub

[OT] Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Lange
and brutal buggery of a fictional gnat. > > Or am I missing something? Maybe, sort of ;) Now, as far as I could see, the question was "Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?" , so what's wrong with trying to answer what appears to be a perfectly legal que

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-29 Thread Curt
On 2012-01-28, Michael Lange wrote: > >> Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. >> I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have >> found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out >> how to use it from a standard US

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread green
Thomas H. George wrote at 2012-01-28 10:19 -0600: > Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. > I want to rename the directory. > found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out > how to use it from a standard US keyboard. Instead of bothering

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:40:51PM -0500, doug wrote: > On 01/28/2012 02:40 PM, Michael Lange wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" > >unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: > > > /snip/ > >You can set up a compose key; here I have added > > > > Option "XkbOptions"

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 28 January 2012 20:40:51 doug wrote: > 3rd person singular preterite is "spake" +1 And what is wrong with "said"? Without the Thus? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread doug
ertain characters. Regards Michael I don't know about gtk apps and xterm, but if you set up a compose key as shown above (or from a menu in KDE) the accented characters work in just about everything--email, console, Open/Libre Office, etc. If you don't have a Windows key, you can set

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Teemu Likonen
[ 2012-01-28 20:40:27 +0100 ] "Michael Lange" wrote: > You can even setup custom key combinations in case you can locate the > correct file for that; here I have a file ~/.XCompose, but changes to > this file are ignored by gtk apps , and xterm and friends seem to be > unable to handle certain cha

Re: Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, Thus spoketh "Thomas H. George" unto us on Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:19:09 -0500: > Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. > I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have > found a font set which contains the character but have not figure

Accented Characters - How to type from standard keyboard?

2012-01-28 Thread Thomas H. George
Ripit created a directory name which starts with an accented character. I want to rename the directory. With xlsfonts, xfontsel and xfd I have found a font set which contains the character but have not figured out how to use it from a standard US keyboard. Is there an easy way to do this? Tom

Re: browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On 22 Aug 2007 06:29:48 -0400 Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to > etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented > characters. > > For example, I create a little test file

Re: browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
set (and I suppose the default "serif" font) includes > accented characters, and so I don't understand why the change to UTF-8 > was needed. The accented characters in ISO-8859-1 are single-byte. The web page is sending two-byte characters. I don't like the way UTF and l

Re: browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Haines Brown
> etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented > > > characters. > > > > > > For example, I create a little test file with a and u umlaut and e > > > ecute: > > > > > > This is a test > > > ?? ?? ?

Re: browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Haines Brown
Juha Tuuna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to > > etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented > > characters. > Loo

Re: browser display of accented characters

2007-08-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:38:59PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: > On Wednesday, 22. August 2007 13:29, Haines Brown wrote: > > I'm not sure when this problem came up, but perhaps when I upgraded to > > etch. Put simply, my browsers no longer can display accented > > characte

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